Passacaglia Project

In 2020 Loevendie’s Passacaglia Project will be performed in a tour starting with the Orgelpark in Amsterdam. The famous female vocal quintet Wishful Singing is planned to be part of the project in which improvising musicians will take part. Exact dates of the concerts will follow.

reviews CD Loevendie & Bosgraaf

Johnny & Jones

Loevendie’s opera Johnny & Jones will be staged in Villa Seligmann in Hannover, Germany followed by stagings in Festivals in Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. It will be conducted by Eckehard Stier, who conducted the German premiere in Dresden fifteen years ago. Exact dates will follow later.

New Commission

20

Feb

2020

The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned an orchestral work by Loevendie to be premiered in the "Matinee op de Vrije Zaterdag" in theAmsterdam Concertgebouw on february 20, 2020. Only six days later the work will have it's US premiere in Minneapolis by the Minnesota Orchestraled by the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä.

Jazz in café Welling

Theo Loevendie's Memoires

14

May

2018

May 14th 2018 Theo Loevendie’s memoirs are available in bookshops in the Netherlands,covering his lifetime from his birth in 1930 in Amsterdam until recent activities in April 2018 and the future. Published https://uitgeverijprometheus.nl Amsterdam19.95 Euro.

Halve Marathon (dutch radio program)

A 90min. interview taken by Tom Klaassen for dutch radio station VPRO. Audible via this link: Halve Marathon Beware: it's all in dutch!

Recital

18

Dec

2017

Ralph van Raat, will be performing "Walk" for piano solo at the Utrecht conservatory.

Weblog No. 2

XENAKIS AND GERMANUS

In Europe and other parts of the world we are used to twelve equal intervals in an octave, since Andreas Werckmeister created the well-tempered tuning and Johann Sebastian Bach composed systematically in all keys in the Preludes and Fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Welling Concert( jubilee)

12

Nov

2017

Jazz in café Welling, Amsterdam Sunday the 12th of November Theo will play with is quintette in Cafe Welling. It will be a special edition because of the 5 year anniversary of "Jazz in Welling" This time special guest will be Yuri Honing on tenor sax!

Performance "Together"

25

Feb

2018

The two pianists Ralph van Raat and Maarten Van Veen perform duo works by Loevendie,Eastman, Lindberg and others. From Theo Loevendie the piece "Together" will be performed. Originally written for Lucas & Arthur Jussen. Performance will be at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland

Autobiography

Spring 2018 the Memoires of Theo Loevendie will be published by Prometheus, Amsterdam, containing his childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Amsterdam, including the misery of World War 2 and his late start to study composition and clarinet at the Amsterdam Conservatory after having developed a reputation as a composer and saxophonist in the field of jazz. Next to his observations as a Professor of Composition at the Conservatories of Rotterdam, the Hague and Amsterdam we read about his visits in many countries connected to lectures or performances of his works.

"Duo for bassclarinet solo" by Stump-Lindshalm

07

Oct

2017

Concert: Duo for bassclarinett solo. performed by Stump-Lindshalm. Stadtgarten Cologne, Germany. Concert starts at 20:00 hr.. For more info: Stump-Linshalm

performance: "Duo for bassclarinet solo"

27

Sep

2017

Concert: Duo for bassclarinett solo. performed by Stump-Lindshalm. For more info: Stump-Linshalm

world premiere

Performance of "Nachtegaal"

27

Sep

2017

On the 27th of september, there will be a performance for children of "de dag-en nachtegaal" at the Koepelkerk in Amsterdam by the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. for more info: de Dag- en Nachtegaal

Radio interview (dutch)

On octobre 3rd, there will be a 90 minutes interview for the dutch radiostation VPRO, with Theo Loevendie about his life and music.

The interviewer is Tom Klaassen. It will be audible via internet and later on it will be broadcasted by the VPRO.

Weblog No.1

This is the first of a number of blogs I hope to publish in the near future.

Why in English? The use of English will help to reach interested people that don’t understand Dutch. What about are these blogs?

CD Nachklang - Erik Bosgraaf

Autumn 2017 a cd will appear with Loevendie’s Nachklang for Recorder Solo, String Orchestra and Harpsichord. Holland Baroque performs the orchestral part, the soloist is Erik Bosgraaf. Bosgraaf also takes part in Dance for Three, for Violin, Clarinet & Recorder together with rising star Dutch-American violinist Diamanda Dramm and German clarinettist Carl Rosman. Bosgraaf also performs Loevendie’s soprano-recorder solo Reflex.

The Rise of Spinoza

Loevendie’s opera The Rise of Spinoza (2014) will be launched by the label Attacca in the course of Autumn 2017. Soloists are 4 singers and recorder player Erik Bosgraaf; the Groot Omroepkoor(Choir of the radio) and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz. It will be combined with a DVD about the making of this opera in a documentary film by Marieke Rodenburg

Radio Philharmonic

The Zaterdag Matinee in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, has commissioned Loevendie to write an orchestral work for the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. It will be premiered in the season 2018/19.

Welling Concert (special)

20

Aug

2017

Farewell Concert Gideon Tazelaar who'll move to New York.

Jazz concert at café Welling in Amsterdam with the Theo Loevendie Quintet.

The concert starts at 16:30 hr

featuring: Gideon Tazelaar

Welling Concert

10

Sep

2017

Jazz concert at café Welling in Amsterdam with the Theo Loevendie Quintet.

New Commision

18

Oct

2018

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27

Oct

2018

Fifteen selected cellists will take part in a competition with a new obligatory work by Theo Loevendie for cello solo, commissioned by the Cello Biennale 2018 in Amsterdam. The Cello Biennale will take place from October 18th until 27th. 2018

Holland Michigan - USA, Hope College

01

Apr

2016

Holland Michigan, USA, Hope College, Jack H Miller Center for the Musical ArtsEAST MEETS WEST ON A TANGOA concert of 8 works by Theo Loevendie, starting withAmsterdam Tango, for violin solo and 7 instruments, written for Gideon Kremer,passing through Ming, for erhu (chinese violin) and pianotrio,and ending with Dance for violin solo, written for Vera Beths.